PPage 148
- English Word Peck Definition The fourth part of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts; as, a peck of wheat.
- English Word Peck Definition A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
- English Word Peck Definition To strike with the beak; to thrust the beak into; as, a bird pecks a tree.
- English Word Peck Definition Hence: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument; especially, to strike, pick, etc., with repeated quick movements.
- English Word Peck Definition To seize and pick up with the beak, or as with the beak; to bite; to eat; -- often with up.
- English Word Peck Definition To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.
- English Word Peck Definition To make strokes with the beak, or with a pointed instrument.
- English Word Peck Definition To pick up food with the beak; hence, to eat.
- English Word Peck Definition A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointed instrument.
- English Word Pecked Definition of Peck
- English Word Pecker Definition One who, or that which, pecks; specif., a bird that pecks holes in trees; a woodpecker.
- English Word Pecker Definition An instrument for pecking; a pick.
- English Word Pecking Definition of Peck
- English Word Peckish Definition Inclined to eat; hungry.
- English Word Peckled Definition Speckled; spotted.
- English Word Pecopteris Definition An extensive genus of fossil ferns; -- so named from the regular comblike arrangement of the leaflets.
- English Word Pecora Definition An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle.
- English Word Pectate Definition A salt of pectic acid.
- English Word Pecten Definition A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; -- also called marsupium.
- English Word Pecten Definition The pubic bone.